Coke's water use in India a growing issue

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Coke's water use in India a growing issue

United Press International | Tuesday, November 23, 2004 5:00 a.m.

The use of large volumes of scarce water by Coca Cola Co. bottling plants in India was the subject of a protest in California Tuesday. Activists in the San Francisco Bay Area accused the soft-drink titan of using its political influence to sidestep corporate conduct standards and drain groundwater that is vital to Indian communities. The demonstrators called on Coke to shut down some of its plants on the subcontinent and pay damages to residents who were unable to irrigate fields and whose drinking water wells became dry. The Indian government earlier this year ordered one bottling plant to stop drawing groundwater supplies. © Copyright 2004 by United Press International

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